All 25 Uses of "communism" in "A Thousand Splendid Suns" - Auto-generated

Rasheed said that Mir Akbar Khyber had been a prominent communist, and that his supporters were blaming the murder on President Daoud Khan's government.†

p. 98.1

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

What's a communist?" she asked.†

p. 98.2

You don't know what a communist is?†

p. 98.3

On the radio, a woman's voice was saying that Taraki, the leader of the Khalq branch of the PDPA, the Afghan communist party, was in the streets giving rousing speeches to demonstrators.†

p. 98.5

These communists, what is it that they believe?†

p. 98.6 *

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

Days later, when the communists began the summary executions of those connected with Daoud Khan's regime, when rumors began floating about Kabul of eyes gouged and genitals electrocuted in the Pol-e-Charkhi Prison, Mariam would hear of the slaughter that had taken place at the Presidential Palace.†

p. 101.5

Daoud Khan had been killed, but not before the communist rebels had killed some twenty members of his family, including women and grandchildren.†

p. 101.6

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

She wondered if the communists would go after him, then.†

p. 102.3

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

On the wall behind Khala Rangmaal's desk was a map of the Soviet Union, a map of Afghanistan, and a framed photo of the latest communist president, Najibullah, who, Babi said, had once been the head of the dreaded KHAD, the Afghan secret police.†

p. 112.4

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

He'd been a high school teacher before the communists fired him-this was shortly after the coup of 1978, about a year and a half before the Soviets had invaded.†

p. 114.5

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

In fact, Babi thought that the one thing the communists had done right-or at least intended to-ironically, was in the field of education, the vocation from which they had fired him.†

p. 135.2

Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before, Babi said, always lowering his voice, aware of how intolerant Mammy was of even remotely positive talk of the communists.†

p. 135.5

Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before, Babi said, always lowering his voice, aware of how intolerant Mammy was of even remotely positive talk of the communists.†

p. 135.6

He meant those regions where men who lived by ancient tribal laws had rebelled against the communists and their decrees to liberate women, to abolish forced marriage, to raise the minimum marriage age to sixteen for girls.†

p. 135.9

"But the communist regime is staying," she said.†

p. 153.6

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

The various communist regimes that had held power since the night Laila was born were all defeated.†

p. 159.7

In her head, she could hear Rasheed's rants against Massoud, how he was a traitor and a communist.†

p. 212.4

Dostum had fought the Soviets in the 1980s alongside the Mujahideen but had defected and joined Najibullah's communist puppet regime after the Soviets had left.†

p. 230.6

The freedoms and opportunities that women had enjoyed between 1978 and 1992 were a thing of the past now-Laila could still remember Babi saying of those years of communist rule, It's a good time to be a woman in Afghanistan, Laila.†

p. 259.8

The Supreme Court under Rabbani was filled now with hard-liner mullahs who did away with the communist-era decrees that empowered women and instead passed rulings based on Shari'a, strict Islamic laws that ordered women to cover, forbade their travel without a male relative, punished adultery with stoning.†

p. 260.1

He was a communist and a kafir.†

p. 276.9

He was a communist!†

p. 279.8

Mariam heard the answer in his laugh: that in the eyes of the Taliban, being a communist and the leader of the dreaded KHAD made Najibullah only slightly more contemptible than a woman.†

p. 279.9

But she told me he was crying like a child the morning the communists took him.†

p. 369.2

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

The communists confiscated so much of my land, and all of my stores as well.†

p. 406.2

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